Word: cols
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military as well as the academic field, the students tried to hit their best strides. Leverett House was visited by Lieut, Col. Morton smith, former executive officer and adjutant of the Harvard R.O.T.C., now head of the Army Specialized Training Program in the First Service Command...
Brig. Gen. Henry D. F. Munnikhuysen, director of the Personnel Division of the Quartermaster Corps, Colonel Wood, Lt. Col. George F. Conner, Commandant of the school, and Donald K. David, dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration, will speak...
...under way. In Washington they reached decisions which will not mature for months-months in which Allied unity may be given a severe trial. Already, as the two men conferred, voices were raised in the U.S. against their war planning, which gave priority to the theater in Europe (see col. 3). To still these criticisms, to convince the U.S. people of the wisdom of Allied strategy, Churchill spoke to the U.S. Congress. It was obvious that he could not reveal details, but his speech showed in general outline what Allied leaders foresaw...
...Churchill spoke to Congress, the air offensive against Germany was in full swing (see col. 3). On the effectiveness of this campaign a major Allied hope was based. Said he: "It is our settled policy . . . to make it impossible for Germany to carry on any form of war industry on a large or concentrated scale, either in Germany, in Italy or in the enemy-occupied countries. Wherever these centers exist or are developed, they will be destroyed and the munitions populations will be dispersed. . . . And this process will continue ceaselessly with ever-increasing weight and intensity until the German...
...midnight, twelve hours before Prime Minister Winston Churchill marched beaming up the center aisle of the U.S. House to answer the arguments of Senator "Happy" Chandler (see col. 1), Custodian Gus Cook and a squad of Secret Service men began searching the musty labyrinths of the Capitol from top to bottom. They reconnoitered the roof, poked their flashlights around the paper-littered attics over the House chamber, peered under every seat in the chamber itself, combed the cloakrooms, including telephone booths, explored the Speaker's office, the Appropriations Committee rooms, the restaurant, the Sergeant at Arms' office...